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woot, woot am2! congrats on your weight loss for this week!! i have to "borrow" arabella's quote "on your stalwart march to glory" and say kudos on how well you are doing on this, empress. :)
arabella-nice to see you. sorry you had to deal with sprained ankle, but glad you are on mend and able to get back to walking and yoga. just falling is always so startling, on top of the actual physical injury. and hello to kaylets, anagram, and any and all queenlies in or around the palace. gorgeous day today, before more storms are due, so i am enjoying every sunny moment of it. still dragging a lot, and seem to need a lot of extra rest, but definitely feeling better than even a couple of days ago. increasing exercise a bit more each day again, as energy permits, but think soon i will be back to full throttle in that area. first time out today in a few days, so will take it slow and easy---well, slower and easirer than normal, anyway. take care, dear queenlies. |
Day 6 dawns
They'd been calling for it to warm up a bit today and rain but right now I see light creeping up on the horizon and a big star hanging above it, so maybe it will be :sunny:
Five days completed now. Maybe I needed the month of being incapacitated to prepare mentally/psychologically. I've never found it so easy to make the switch to only eating at the table. One thing I've done is to associate the image of self eating alone in front of the TV with self puffing up at the same time. I'm feeling a little depuffed already, pants feel looser. WSW, you're right about the impact of falling. The first week after I fell, I felt a bit like I was still in shock. I hope your energy is returning -- it makes life so hard when energy is lacking. Time to go wake DGS, who's here for a sleepover. Or, as he used to say, "a shleepover." Let's make this a good one! :cb: |
Huzzah & woot to Arabella, so happy to see ye back in the palace and sorry to read o' thy mishap & ankle injury as well as other worries.
I am also doing a 10,000 day step program with my new Fitbit Zip, as well as lifting a few times a week. Right now finding the 10,000 steps per day challenging and really did not realize that though I lift and/or and walk or jog daily I was really not getting enough steps into my day. There have been a few days when I don't hit the target but I am working this week to reach the weekly goal of 70,000 steps. Congratulations on five days and pants getting looser. Thank you for the congrats! :wave: Happy as always also to see the stalwart Wsw this morning as well, and also thanks for the congrats. Glad you are experiencing good weather and are getting back to full throttle by increasing exercise daily. Woot to all queenlies near and far! I did some volunteer work yesterday that mayor may not be a regular thing, still looking for a permanent job, finding self very tired yesterday afternoon and took long nap and ate a bit more in the calorie department and was NOT goign to finish the steps but what I love about having the Fitbit is that I woke up later in the evening, started watching election coverage and found myself motivated to finish the steps, just packing 'round and 'round the hallways of my house and around the yard and in front of house on the street. Really think it is helping me overall. |
Gratitude Post
I am grateful today to all men & women, past & present, who have served in my country's military. Freedom is not free. |
Everything more or less going my WEIGH! Refound the pound lost last week but met new walking goal for week by 137 percent, lost inch off waist, and have stronger, pain free knees, so who cares 'bout that pound lol? It is obviously muscle.
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arabella- congrats on all your completed days on your plan! hope you had fun during recent dgs's sleepover. :)
am2-yea for adding 10, 000 steps to your already very empressive exercise regimen. huzzah on that additional inch off also! liked your recent gratitude post too---well said. :) the fall leaves really have been gorgeous this season. love looking at them. still have tail end of cold and ear infection, but finally feeling like it is going to end. going over to friends' home for dinner, which will be nice. hadn't seen them in quite a while, so will be fun to catch up. have been sticking with food and exercise plan well. planning on more cals than usual (for this evening)since hosts are excellent cooks so though i won't go wild, will not be a martyr either. lol! well, greetings to all our dear royals both near and far. take care. |
Woot!
Wsw, thanks for the congrats on the increased walking vis a vis the step counting program. It has made a lot of difference this week because despite a high calorie week, I lost .8 and also 2.5 overall inches with .5 of that being in the all-imporatant waist measurement. So am happy. Hope you ear infection and cold are all better today and that you enjoyed your dinner with friends last week. I've added yet another month to my goal dates ... February 3, 2013, on or by which I will reach 125. All the monthly goal dates are the same but I'm not making the exact numbers I need, which is fine. I can wait! Love to all royals near or far. |
Just Me. The storyteller is not here. The dieter is here and WAY back on track (yay). The person walking 10,000+ steps a day and losing inches like crazy is here. The nonvirtual person putzin' 'round her nonvirtual town doing laundry, shopping, job hunting, playing with the dog, planning dinner, is here.
Have been rereading Marianne Williamson's "A Course in Weight Loss." Have wanted to discuss this book with somebody for a while now but nobody wants to discuss it with me lol. Another story. Was wanting to post this neat quote from Marianne Williamson so decided to post on this royal thread. I don't have any discussion about it to offer. It is what it is. It is apropros of something I read on a diet web site, maybe this one, I don't remember, about someone saying they don't love themselves. People on the thread told the person they should love themselves. I think I answered that I can't imagine not loving myself and that is true, but if someone doesn't, then they don't. Why tell other people who to love? I have no point about this. If related to weight loss, I have to say that I have been heavier than I am now and thinner. Both ways, I guess I loved myself. There is no way I have not loved myself and THAT IS WHY I AM DOING 10,000 STEPS A DAY AND THAT IS WHY I AM PUTZIN' 'ROUND TRYING TO WEIGH WHAT I WANT TO WEIGH. The fact is I don't think I could do it at all if I didn't have my own love of ME to keep me going. Well, here is the quote and I could go on for hours about self-love and how a perceived sense of not loving self is oft times, in my opinion, a mask for a habit of internalizing the negativity of others. That, too, is another story. "You are here to love and be loved, and the soul in its native intelligence knows this. Accept the magnitude of your function, and your reignited spiritual intelligence will spark your body’s intelligence as well. As your mind remembers its natural function, the cells of your body will remember theirs. You will no longer be at the effect of your compulsion. You will become a master at living your life." ~ Marianne Williamson, From "A Course in Weight Loss" |
Hello, Lovelies!
I'm happy to report that it's been several weeks since I ate anywhere but at the table when by myself. Also, have gotten my 10,000 steps all but two days in the same time and have done yoga most days as well. I got to hot yoga four times last week and I must say, I feel SO much better when I go, psychologically even more than physically. I'm in Halifax this week so won't be able to get to the studio but will go through the series in the condo. It's a bright and beautiful week :sunny: Fall temps but not as cold as might be. I'll head out for a walk along the harbour and then to do a little shopping before too long. Am, I LOVE the quote and am inspired to seek out the book and read it. Then we can discuss. :) I think it's very true that we've got internal beliefs that are: A. the reason we got fat and B. the reason we have trouble losing and tend to regain. I've been on a bit of a spiritual journey and can feel myself letting some of those things go. At one point, the last time I was actually allowing myself to sit on the couch while I ate, I had a sense of a very angry woman inside me, eating ferociously. Another time, I had the sense of a wistful woman just slipping (wistfully) away. Essential, I think, for accepting what is, not wishing anything other than the reality in any given moment. Much to think about. At the same time, though, some of this IS physiological. If I eat wheat or sugar, I'm physically more hungry and have cravings. Well, I guess I can see the lesson there. ;) Dear WSW, so glad you're starting to feel better! I can hear that you've got your stalwart course set and are sailing forth again. Our fall has been good here too, although we've got heavy frosts at night now. It was a beautiful drive over here yesterday morning, with the frost on the meadows and trees, the sun rising. Hope you had fun with your friends! Love to all, mentioned or un- ... If you're lurking, pop on to say :wave: Let's make this a good one! |
Hello, royals! This is just another flyby and sorry but in the interest o' full disclosure, some parts of this postie are a cross post as I am pooped and should be going to bed lol.
To be honest (again lol) I've been kind of in a long slump and also have been spending too much time sort of beating head against a lot of brick walls lol, which is unproductive and not helpful. Today a strange thing happened. A store clerk who has seen me in the grocery for the past 18 years or so suddenly looked at me and said that I was beautiful. Lol, I don't know why she said that, guess she was having some private trouble that made her feel she should tell people what she was thinking. She said that she had watched me transform myself for years and that I was beautiful. So I said she was beautiful, too, and that I was glad we were both still here. That got me to thinking, not for the first time, that I needed to transform mentally as well, as in spiritually, intellectually and that as in physical transformation, that doesn't mean I don't like who I essentially am (because I do), but that I have to function better and better all the time to reach my full potential in life as to be honest, ladies, I am not gettin' any younger here lol. So used today to pull the plug out of one of the more time wasting social media sites I blog on. It is a site I love and return to again and again (I blog and post a lot of places on the internet, as I assume we all do), but where I've had one too many negative experiences with one too many negative people who DON'T wish me well lol. I've had good experiences with non negative people on that site as well, not meaning that I have not, but in choosing where I spend my time, I consider eliminating negativity to be an important factor. It is a small step, doesn't mean I am giving up social media, just that I have to be more careful to use my time productively (I still intend to revive my career in 2013) AND in a positive manner. (Never intend leaving this thread or 3FC lol). Another thing I did in the spirit of the diet journey (which is a huge part of my shaping up mentally as well as physically) is to throw away TWO BOXES of dark chocolate bars I recently bought thinking that I could eat one half of one bar a day and be fine with that. Uh, no. I've gone over calories each day since I've had those. Anyhow, still doing the 10,000 steps program, going hiking tomorrow. Happy holiday to all who are in the U.S. and Happy Thursday to all others. |
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happy thanksgiving to those in u.s. and happy thursday to all our other queenlies! :) i am going over to friends' home in a little while for thanksgiving dinner. just gorgeous out today, as it was yesterday. what a treat for this time of year. greetings, am2 and arabella! thinking of you :) take care. |
Thinking of you, too, wsw & arabella! Woot! Have a great Friday!
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Hmmm, lol, already playing with the diet plan here in Holiday Diet Challenge Village; the Committee on Scheduling Official Weigh-In Days has protested to the Am2-ites, who are running the challenge to reach 125 pounds sometime in December or January, that a FRIDAY WEIGH-IN WAS UNFEASIBLE GIVEN THE SCHEDULE. They did not specify which schedule this was but anyhow, the committee unanimously voted in a compromise for a SATURDAY OFFICIAL WEIGH-IN DAY.
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Hmmm, again. Hi, royals! WOot! Changed my weigh-in day BACK to Sunday (creature of habit) and was down a pound!
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Woot! Just bumpin' the palace here and sayin' hello!! About to go out the door, wondering how everyone is doing! :wave:
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And another quick woot to announce this is the 25th day Am2 hath met her 10,000 daily step goal. Just finished today, usually exceed it by bedtime as I continue wearing the device after I get to 10,000.
Been thinking of all royal friends here & missing them but understand things change & people wander in different directions ... Love to all. I'll be popping in the rest of the year as always. Woot! |
woot, woot, am2 on that weight loss last sunday!!! you are moving forward fabulously!
as always, empress, you inspire me to no end. i too was thinking about changing my official weigh-in day, and ended up keeping mine the same in the end. (mine is wednesday.) speaking of which, i am losing again, though ever so slightly, after what felt like a very long holding pattern. my body sure does what it wants when it wants, and even though this is my non-pattern-pattern, it never ceases to aggravate me. i will keep doing what i need to do and hang in there and not use this as an excuse to jump ship, though. period. my condo still has not sold, and it is driving me bonkers. i am doing everything i can be doing in this regard, but talk about frustrating! i want it sold NOW! ah well. i checked on it the other day, and my door had been left unlocked by some real estate agent who had showed it. i was so frustrated by that, but the good news was no one had tried the door and trashed it, which could have so easily happened. getting my condo sold is definitely on my christmas wish list. on a positive note, it was another gorgeous day out today. what a treat. i stayed op food and exercise-wise also, so can't complain at all. hope you are having a pleasant weekend, am2! hello to all our royal kingdom also. take care. |
hi am2!
another gorgeous day here today. loving this weather. got some errands and chores done today. got in a nice, long phone visit with a good friend, which was very enjoyable. also stayed op with food and exercise plan. not too easy to make myself stick to the food portion, but i did and am proud of myself for doing it. well, need to try and accomplish a couple more chores. hope a good evening will be had by all royals, near and far. |
Huzzah, Wsw! Woot! T'is a gorgeous day here, too, and congratulations to you for sayting op with food & exercise. Glad you had a good day and phone visit with a good friend.
I was up .2 yesterday for my Sunday weigh-in but pretty happy with that as I ate kind of high all week. My goal date is January 6 but would be happy to reach the goal by year's end, really going to focus and speed this all up if I can! Thinking of all the royals, near & far! Have a wonderful week, all! :wave: |
Here we go Monday, here we go!
Well, so far, a really good food day! Yay! In fact, even chose water instead of the water doesn't need to be sweetened....... Suddenly, (finally!) I have some motivation and hopefully it will stay with me a little longer than just today. And this is a good feeling---not a white knuckle with sweat "I realllllllyyyyyy need to do this '............... I haven't read all the posts but am so glad I saw yours Empress about the clerk telling you she thinks your beautiful. She's right!!! Wsw....I think you are too! We tell others, we see it in others, we deserve to see it in ourselves. And treat ourselves the same way. As the precious beauties we are! Here we go Monday, Here we go!!:cheer2::cheer2::cheer2: |
Woot! Huzzah, Kaylets! So nice to hear your: "Here we go Monday, Here we go!!"
Thanks re the kind words re what the clerk said to me. And I concur in thinking that Wsw is beautiful, too, and you, Kaylets, are also! Kaylets, I love what you said here: "We tell others, we see it in others, we deserve to see it in ourselves." I have just recently (at my advanced age) been learning that and learning, too, not to internalize the negativity of others towards me. I am just healing from all that. I think (hope) it will translate into reaching this "ideal weight" idea I have in my wee brain as a cap to this year lol. Well, ate a lot today yet again but have an eating plan worked out for the rest of the week that'll help. My 10,000 step program is going very well and I always exceed that number, plus I am doing weights and some Leslie vids in addition to the dedicated walks and daily activities that make up the 10,000 steps. So feeling strong on all fronts. Woot! :wave: |
Woot, all! A little insomnia has me walking around the house getting a headstart on my 10,000!!! Thinking of all of the royals and hoping all are well.
For me, right now, I can say I am on a quest to reach the 120s by year end. All desire to be at 125 on January 6 is now focused on this goal just to be in the 120s by the new year. I am not doing anything too differently, my inspiration for what I am calling The Wonder Diet (lol, because it will be wonderful to be in the 120s) comes from a little book called The Simple Diet, products and/or plans by Wonderslim, Medifast, Ideal Protein, Slim-Fast, Southbeach Diet and Weight Watcher's 360. I am making changes in how I think and spend my time and focus (my last 3FC blog post rambles on about that). S'about it! I should go to bed! Woot to all! :wave: |
Woot! Bumping & saying hello! :wave:
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Manifesto: There are 22 days to go to December 30! After that it is New Year’s Eve, kind of a holiday for rest & reflection. I am starting NOW to make this last bit of the interesting year 2012 the best they can possibly be before crossing the portal into the GLORIOUS YEAR 2013, a year where anything is possible, with no mistakes in it (yet)! Woot!
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what that clerk told you, amarantha2, was correct-you are beautiful!
and kaylets, you are beautiful! i am with am2, and i also love what you said("We tell others, we see it in others, we deserve to see it in ourselves.") what an important reminder. will be back again soon to post more, but wanted to at least peek in and say that i am thinking of you both, and it has brought a smile to my face. :) take care. |
Sunday in the Palace
:tree: Good morning, all you best and most beautiful of :queen:! What a frantic time here in my corner of the Palace. We just did the performance of The Messiah last Sunday. All went well but I think we sort of burnt out through the dress rehearsal. We were on fire for that -- always a risk. Needed to remind ourselves to keep that energy up. However, the audience was very appreciative. Had someone comment that it was the best performance yet, and we got a standing ovation, so ... good enough. Then we had the traditional little dinner party after the performance. Had my mom's birthday party Tuesday, DH's staff party Friday night, my family Christmas party tonight, the choir party tomorrow night, a choir carol performance Tuesday evening, my writing group gathering Wednesday evening, DGS and putting up the tree Thursday evening, DH's birthday party Saturday evening and a baby shower on Sunday. Whew! That's way too much for me. I'll be looking forward to a week from tomorrow -- nothing planned from the 17th until the 24th. I'm happy to report that I have not, not once, slipped and eaten anywhere other than at the table when I've been alone since I made that decision, maybe a month ago. Have also gotten my 10,000 steps most days, but want to make that "every day" and get to hot yoga at least 5 times a week. Clothes are fitting better. I had tried on my winter jackets and they were too small, at least a couple of inches around the hips away from fitting. I wore one of them last week, so yay! :ginger: Amarantha, I did get a copy of "A course in weight loss." Haven't really started reading it yet but the concepts are resonating. What did you think of it? Congrats on getting to 125, as I know full well you will! :encore: :candy: WSW, that must be so frustrating waiting for your condo to sell! I know what it's like -- when we moved from Newfoundland, it took a year for our house there to sell and we had similar issues. So glad that no miscreant tried the door! :snowglo: Kaylets, it's nice when healthful behavior seems natural and not desperate! This year of self-nurture didn't mostly work out that way for me but, as we head into the end of it, I think I'm starting to get there. Remember to take good care of your own sweet self! :wreath: DH is here putting on his boots, time to head out for the Sunday walk, to be followed by hot yoga. Have a wonderful day, Queenlies! |
Woot! Arabella, so great to see you here today and Wsw as well! Congrats to both of you for all your successes; Arabella, wish I'd been there to hear the Messiah, I love it so much.
Re ACIWL, I like it and have found it useful in many ways. I like Marianne Williamson in general and find her words often uplifting. 21 days to the day before the last Sunday of the glorious year 2012! While everything's NOT exactly goin' my weigh today (up a pound lol), I am happy with weight and still believe I can reach my year-end goal of reaching the 120s ... not likely to reach 125 by then so just trying for the 120s at the moment. Weight loss ticker will not update, Ticker Factory seems to be all messed up; going to fix or do a new one, weight is NOW 134.4 ... had a lot of sodium as I am doing The Simple Diet and eating processed food for a while lol. Love to all, shall returneth! Woot! |
I had trouble with the tracker I was previously using, which I started at 143 pounds, but wanted to note that at the beginning of this year, I had bounced up to 150, from a low a year and a half before that of 117, which i had FINALLY reached after years of working at from my original high weight of 247. So when I started this new tracker I started it from January and am very motivated I have done so well this year and still have HOPES of being under 130 by 2013.
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Stopping by to wish all our Royals a happy holiday season! :xcheer:
I'll be watching for a new thread for 2013 and joining you in your journey! |
am2- you certainly have done well this year!! woot! woot!
hello wildfire! arabella- yay on clothes fitting better, and only eating in designated area (when alone) for over a month! kaylets-greetings! :) and to all our lovely royals one and all. hectic day, so kind of worn out now, but did stay op food and exercise-wise, and pleased about that. some "ms technical difficulties" so will sign off for now. take care, all. |
Huzzah, Wildfire!! :wave:
I am eagerly anticipating the new thread and the new year, too! Arabella, meant to mention that I am doing a 10,000 step program also, I probably posted that already, too lazy to look lol. Congratulations on doing yours and on the hot yoga. I have never tried hot yoga, sounds interesting. Wsw, hope your day is less hectic tomorrow and congratulations on staying op with food & exercise. I am totally worn out tonight but fighting the good fight to NOT overeat. I did have a high day yesterday but it was within bounds and so much better than last week. Having lunch out with an old friend tomorrow in the town where I used to work. That is going to be challenging but I need to stay in the calorie range. Yesterday I gave away all the processed meals but am still kind of doing the modular thing from Simple Diet, except I need to cook fresh food instead of eating the boxed stuff, which was making me ill as my blood pressure doesn't respond well to all that sodium and what not. I cooked chicken and brown rice, ate one meal, gave one to the dog, and froze four. I am using whatever shakes I wish and varying them. For bars this week, I am going to bake some breakfast cookies that a friend gave me a recipe for and I am using Soyjoy bars because I still love soy and because they taste like fruitcake but are fairly healthy. Got my steps in for exercise, still loving the Fitbit. I also am doing 2-3 strength sessions per week and some Leslie Sansone Walk Aerobics (because I like her). Feeling WAY better since I stopped trying to be a runner. Huzzah to tried and true royals and so love seeing you here, so grateful and thankful for your queenly comradeship through all the years. Woot! :wave: |
Just passin' through and it be a glorious day here in my part o' the universe! Woot to all royals! :wave:
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Happy Friday!
Good morning, :queen:ies! Frantic Friday -- I've got a review to write, grocery shopping to get done, errands, plus work. But Friday, nonetheless. Tomorrow's DH's 64th birthday party. I've just decided that I'm not going to try to get the steak & kidley pie done today.
:tree: I picked up our tree last night and we'll get it set up and -- I hope -- decked today. If DH will just help me get it into the stand I can start decorating it in between things. It's in the porch now and I get a whiff of Christmas every time the door's opened. :) :wreath: Wildfire! Looking forward to gathering in the 2013 Palace! :ginger: Aye, Am! I do ken ye (help -- just read a novel set in Scotland!) walk 10,000 steps a day. I sometimes think of us virtually and virtuously walking together around this world. :snowglo: WSW, thanks! It is a major accomplishment for me to have kept to sitting only at the table when I'm by myself. It adds that essential control to the situation for me. :candy: Kaylets, Anagram: Hope to see you soon! :clause: Love to all, as we go about our Fridays. Let's make it a good one! |
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Oh, meant to say, too, I wrote a holiday-themed grammar/writing quiz for my work blog, if anyone's interested: 'Tis (or t'is) the season: A grammar quiz |
Arabella, loved the holiday grammar quiz! It was fun to take! Woot! :wave:
I like that about walking this world virtually and virtuously. I wonder how many steps it would take to walk around the actual world. Hmmm, mayhap I should check that out. Could be a lifetime avocation to do that! *** Hmmm, again! I am just drifting along here hoping SUPER DUPER CHEF (another identity that has popped up in my wee feverish brain) has a nice weigh-in tomorrow after getting off the sodium, additive laden diet entree train. Calories were fairly good though still not where Chef wants to be. So we'll see ... rhymes! :lol: Still have a strong possibility of a new job not in my profession but then I am supposed to be retired from that profession & transitioning, creating a new me, who shall she be? SUPER DUPER CHEF? Nah, not a profession, but that is going to be a new passion of mine and hobby, cooking at home more, a vow and aim I have had for some time but often am too lazy to implement. Have a cooking project for tomorrow. A recipe I pulled from a recipe site really intrigues me and I hope to make it tomorrow afternoon. It is for a healthy looking easy flatbread. I do not really like using yeast, never have, although I've made yeast bread and pizza dough in the distant past, so the flatbread is perfect for me. It is low in calories. Nothing further to say, SUPER DUPER CHEF is not much of a creative storyteller about queens and innocent diet maidens and exercise elves and such, she just likes food. Hmmm, that is a good thing really. Food is good. But to maintain her royal & somewhat aging but still glorious figure (really do have a good figure ... old-fashioned word), we here in SUPER DUPER CHEFLAND do have to cook more at home and eat healthy food that sustains our royal energy level and doesn't send our blood pressure through the palace roof. *** IT. IS. MANIFEST. |
If I say it out loud I will jinx it ????
Hello all!
Almost afraid to say it out loud, but.....It's been over a week since I ran out of bread and saw the Dr. Oz show with the Wheat Belly author...........AND I've not had anything ( that I am aware of, even thru away soup with wheat in it)............wheat or quinoa (and I do miss quinona).........BUT...........almost afraid to break the spell.................... Those big awful, can't control, must have, can't wait, must, must, must cravings are GONE. Just pale, stick your finger thru, faint, tiny voices which are easily controlled and sometimes will even go back to your room and wait if I tell them. Even, last Friday when I was so upset ---and even this Sunday, another sad day. And I knew it all along, my Royals. I knew if I ate oatmeal that in about 45 minutes I would be so ravenously hungry I could eat a wooden chopping block without wiping it off. I know that Doritos and cheese puffs won't even make it out of the parking lot......... Those cravings are as close to a crack addiction as I will ever know. But never connected---because eating wheat bread, etc, was a sneakier craving.....it was a craving that acted like regular hunger, not a hand shaking, emptiness. But nevertheless, after eating a protein heavy sandwich .......I'd be hungry 2 hours later. Hungry as if I had only eaten a grape. The past few days, if I just have the heavy protein----maybe even as the topping on a big baked potato for supper.....................I don't need to eat until the next morning. All this time, I thought it was sugar and yes, I know what some sugars do to me and I realize there is a wheat/sugar connection ..........but................ I still haven't weighed myself, in fact, not even sure where the scale is but I could tell about 4 days in that my face was less round. Sure, its a big shock to my metabolism but it was a wonderful 'atta boy' to look in the mirror that 4th morning.:dizzy::o:dizzy::o Empress, this is exciting news about new job/career possibility!! Sending good thoughts your way! Wood Nymph, so nice to see you and hear about your goings on. I know the birthday party for your DH was a success! WSW, hope those difficulties only stayed a short while. I think often of you....I just need to get here and tell you!! Wildfire in the castle! KEWL Anagram, Greetings and Salutations in your new castle! Take care all! Still, no cravings!!! |
Hello all royals! Kaylets, so good to see you and that is interesting about the wheat. Please keep us abreast of how it is going. Quinoa, which I do not like, agrees with me when I eat it. I do get slight effects from wheat, although am not gluten sensitive and probably won't ever give up wheat, but it is interesting to explore the possibility. I love many gluten free products so it would be easy for me to do. With apologies, I am crossposting my blog here as my status update 'cause my office is freezing and I need to go take a hot shower and sis boom bah outta the house soon for errands. "Hmmm, not to go all cabalistic here but MY MOJO'S BACK! Woot! Me, being the entity known as, well, ME! The QUEEN & EMPRESS OF MY OWN LIFE, my own WEIGHT LOSS COACH & FITNESS MANAGER, manager of my career zones, life, loves, & fortune! And the CHEF ... the person who cooks her own food at home 70-90 percent of the time ... I am considering making that my New Year's resolution, btw, but not yet sure. It really helps having food at the ready in the palace kitchen. Anyhow, the POINT of this silly blog is I have been kind of under a negative & gloomy spell for a while and this fantasy popped up in my wee brain last night whilst watching HSN wherein they had for sale for HUGE (to me) prices jewelry that had the Evil Eye on it. It was quite pretty and should be pointed out that the Evil Eye is not evil but a universal symbol used by people who want to ward off the EVIL EYE CURSE or the practice of OVERLOOKING ... e.g., folks who don't wish us well sending us bad luck or something. I don't believe in the evil eye curse or runs of bad luck being sent by other people as it seems to me we make our own luck, for good or evil. But I like the idea of having a pretty talisman that my inner fantasy child could maybe use to ward off evil from outside forces, especially if some entity or other out there was stopping me from reaching the 120s by the end of this crazy year lol. So briefly thought of spending some moola on the mojo ring but then remembered that much as I am a storyteller and a lover of the mystic in life, a mojo ring won't pay the bills and won't especially STOP ME FROM EATING EXTRA CALORIES THAT SNEAK IN WHENEVER I AM FEELING A LITTLE BIT O' NEGATIVITY COMING IN FROM MY INNER DEMONS OR FROM THE WORLD AT LARGE. But I don't need a ring. I have a better magic power than that. It is called WILLPOWER or sometimes WON'T POWER or sometimes I HAVE A CHOICE. I have the power of choosing my own destiny (to some extent) in all areas of life and the power of choosing my own destiny 100 PERCENT in the area of weight loss & fitness in the sense that no outside forces can make me eat calories I don't want or eat donuts or red velvet cheesecake I think unwise (okay, sometimes it is wise to eat red velvet cheesecake, but not this week when I am trying for a loss). I always have a choice. I always have the mojo. IT. IS. ALL. ABOUT. ME. I don't need a magic mirror to reflect demonic cheesecake negativity or a magic ring to ward off evil caloric eyes. It is manifestly, just ME here. Film. At. 11." |
Hiya Gals!
Kaylets, I've been thinking about cutting out wheat/moving to gluten free to see how I feel. Interesting to read your results, and look forward to more updates! By the way, I believe I was the one to tell you about Jesse Cook all those years ago. I saw his Blue Guitar tour in Hamilton last month, and it was excellent as always! Anagram, I hear you have moved to a new palace? Still settling in? Can't wait to hear all about it! Amarantha, I think "ALL.ABOUT.ME." is a fantastic theme for our new year. If we don't make it about looking after ourselves, who will? No one! Arabella! Looking forward to catching up here with you! We see each other on the FB place but here has always been easier to talk about our day to day "stuff". wsw, hope you are feeling well and able to enjoy the holidays without technical difficulties! 2013 is going to be a very selfish year for me. I think it's about time, too! I'm not getting any younger!! I have a gym membership and was dedicated to going 3 or 4 times a week, then my gym buddy had a family thing (liver transplant patient) and is on leave from work for the last couple of months, so I slipped out of our habit of hitting the gym right after work before my second job required me (making dinner, doing dishes, walking the dog, cleaning up, laundry, etc). So, once this holiday nonsense is over with, I'm committing to regular gym attendance, paying more attention to food and what I'm putting in my body, meditation, and possibly a membership at a massage clinic where I pay a monthly rate and can have as many massages as I like! I will look after me first this year, so I can better look after the people in my life. Right now I have to bake cookies for a friend who requested them for his Christmas gift. I love giving gifts like this - no shopping, no traffic, no screaming kids and hostile shoppers to deal with - and I enjoy cooking for other people! Have a fabulous day! :) |
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